College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005 (P.R. China).
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Nov 18;52(47):12240-55. doi: 10.1002/anie.201303594. Epub 2013 Oct 2.
A breath figure (BF) is the water droplet array that forms when moisture comes in contact with a cold substrate. This water droplet array has been widely utilized in the past two decades as a versatile soft template for the fabrication of polymeric porous films. Accordingly, the ordered pores on the polymer films formed with such a method are named a breath figure array (BFA).The BF templating technique is undergoing rapid development. Several unconventional BF processes have been established to prepare porous films with unique morphologies or primary materials, and various newly developed functionalization techniques have significantly improved the performance of polymeric films with BFA, leading to novel applications, including templates, biosensors, and separation membranes. These recent achievements will be described in this Minireview.
呼吸图形（BF）是水分与冷基底接触时形成的水滴阵列。在过去的二十年中，这种水滴阵列已被广泛用作制造聚合物多孔膜的多功能软模板。因此，用这种方法形成的聚合物膜上的有序孔被命名为呼吸图形阵列（BFA）。BF 模板技术正在迅速发展。已经建立了几种非常规的 BF 工艺来制备具有独特形态或主要材料的多孔膜，并且各种新开发的功能化技术显著提高了具有 BFA 的聚合物膜的性能，从而产生了新的应用，包括模板、生物传感器和分离膜。本综述将介绍这些最新的研究进展。
